"on behalf of the City of Florence, a bronze replica of the ‘Porcellino’ by Pietro Tacca in the Loggia del Mercato Nuovo. The antique work was moved to the Museo Bardini in 2004. In addition, again for Florence, it executed replicas of Giambologna's 'Bacchus' in Borgo San Jacopo (antique is, from 2006, in the Bargello Museum), and the ‘St. Matthew’ by Lorenzo Ghiberti for an external niche of the Church of Orsanmichele (antique in museum nearby). The Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry remained in its historical headquarters in Via Corridoni until 2001 when new environmental regulations prohibiting the casting of bronze"
"des médailles, Paris, the Hermitage Museum, the Ashmolean in Oxford, and a number of German museums, although the outstanding Berlin collection was lost in World War II. Not much of the British Museum's important collection is on display, nor that of the Vatican Museums. The Bargello in Florence has some 400 plaquettes, about half from the collection of the Medici family, who played an important role in the development of the form. Most of the rest are from the collection of Louis Carrand, who bequeathed it to Florence. After that of Drefus, this is the next most important collection assembled"
"the Bargello and the Museum of the Works of the Duomo. They are filled with the creations of Donatello, Verrochio, Desiderio da Settignano, Michelangelo and others. The Galleria dell'Accademia has Michelangelo's David – perhaps the best-known work of art anywhere, plus the unfinished statues of the slaves Michelangelo created for the tomb of Pope Julius II. Other sights include the medieval city hall, the Palazzo della Signoria (also known as the Palazzo Vecchio), the Archeological Museum, the Museum of the History of Science, the Garden of Archimedes, the Palazzo Davanzatti, the Stibbert Museum, St. Marks, the Medici Chapels, the Museum"
"numerous Italian museums (Museo Nazionale del Bargello (Bargello Museum), Galleria Palatina, Parchi della Val di Cornia (Val di Cornia Parks), Museo del tessuto (Textile Museum) in Prato, Palazzo Martinengo Cesaresco Novarino in Brescia, Museo della ceramica(Ceramics Museum) of Montelupo Fiorentino, Museo archeologico di Montelupo (Archaeological Museum), Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Modern Art Centre) of Prato, Museo della Vite e del Vino di Montespertoli (Wine and wine-growing Museum), Museo di arte sacra (Sacred Art Museum) (Montespertoli), Palazzo Ducale (Sassuolo), Cenacolo di Andrea del Sarto (Last Supper). Since 2009, together with Paolo Biondi, and under the direction of Antonio Paolucci,"
"Palazzo Davia Bargellini, Bologna The Palazzo Davìa Bargellini is a Baroque style palace located on Strada Maggiore in central Bologna, Italy. It presently hosts the Civic Museum of Industrial art and Davìa Bargellini Gallery, which is an eclectic collection of paintings as well as applied arts and functional ornamentation, described as ""curiosities of the old Bologna"". The diverse applied art collection includes ceramics, liturgical robes, keys, ornamental door knobs, marionettes from street theaters, furniture, iron grille work, elaborately carved wooden frame, and a gilded carriage. Construction of the palace was commissioned in 1638 by Camillo Bargellini of a Bolognese Senatorial"
"Turin are, perhaps, the best such collections in the world. The classical age is not the only age represented in Italy's museums. The Italian Renaissance is well represented in a number of museums: the Uffizi Gallery, Bargello Museum, and Palazzo Pitti are all located in Florence. Many of these museums, are the former palaces of kings or the houses of royal families. In 1986, the first internet connection in Italy was experimented in Pisa, the third in Europe after Norway and England. Already in the late 1970s, Pisan researchers, firstly with Luciano Lenzini, were in contact with U.S. researchers who"
"Stefano Bardini Stefano Bardini (1836–1922) was an Italian connoisseur and art dealer in Florence who specialized in Italian paintings, Renaissance sculpture, ""cassoni"" and other Renaissance and Cinquecento furnishings and architectural fragments that came on the market during the urbanistic reorganization of Florence in the 1860s and 70s. Trained as a painter and expert copyist at the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze from 1854, Bardini received increasing commissions as a restorer and expanded into selling works of art from 1870 onwards. Working as a restorer Bardini, who successfully removed some Botticelli frescoes from the Villa Lemmi, was commissioned to remove the"
"was exhibited throughout Europe, commonly winning awards. He was named cavaliere dell' Order of Leopold II of Belgium, honorary professor of the Istituto Reale di Belle Arti in Naples, and honorary academician at the Istituto di Belle Arti di Bologna. Among his students was Argentinian sculptor Lola Mora. The ""Costantino Barbella"" Museum of Art, is located in the Palazzo Martinetti Bianchi in Chieti. Costantino Barbella Costantino Barbella (Chieti, January 31, 1853 – December 5, 1925) was an Italian sculptor, known as ""il Michetti della scultura"". He began his career by modeling terracotta figurines for churches and Nativity Scenes (Presepe). In"
"Gregorio facing piazza dei Mozzi in the Oltrarno and set about transforming it into his opulent residence and restoration studio, Palazzo Bardini, now housing the Museo Bardini, with his collections of paintings, sculpture, most notably a marble ""Charity"" by Tino da Camaino, 15th- and 16th-century Italian furniture, ceramics, tapestry, arms; stringed and keyboard musical instruments, including one of only two surviving oval spinets by Bartolomeo Cristofori; Roman and Etruscan antiquities and 15th- and 16th-century architectural fittings, including paneled and painted ceilings, chimneypieces and door surrounds. His example inspired his most successful protégé, Elia Volpi, to purchase and freely restore Palazzo"
"the Bargello, the statue was included in the collection of Florentine sculpture gathered in the museum. It was returned to the Palazzo Vecchio on 6 November 1921, now placed in a niche in the modern center of the back wall of the room, where, since the time Florence had been the capital of Italy (1865), the 19th-century statue of Savonarola had stood (now in Piazza Savonarola). Only in recent years has the ""Victory"" been restored to its former position along the right wall. The dating and attribution of the statue to the project of the tomb are based on stylistic"
"(1792–1872), it likely previously belonged to the Pepoli family. Palazzo Davia Bargellini, Bologna The Palazzo Davìa Bargellini is a Baroque style palace located on Strada Maggiore in central Bologna, Italy. It presently hosts the Civic Museum of Industrial art and Davìa Bargellini Gallery, which is an eclectic collection of paintings as well as applied arts and functional ornamentation, described as ""curiosities of the old Bologna"". The diverse applied art collection includes ceramics, liturgical robes, keys, ornamental door knobs, marionettes from street theaters, furniture, iron grille work, elaborately carved wooden frame, and a gilded carriage. Construction of the palace was commissioned"
"frescoes commissioned by Jakob Salomon Bartholdy from several of the German Nazarene circle of painters from Casa Bartholdy, Rome, which had been purchased by Berlin, in 1886–87. His esthetic, barely distinguishable restoration of Simone Martini's ""Saint Catherine of Alexandria"", now in the National Gallery of Canada, has been examined as an outstanding example of the seamless restorations that his generation preferred. Many well-known works of Renaissance art bear a Bardini provenience. The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, has some twenty works that passed through his hands, notably the Benedetto da Maiano ""Madonna and Child"", the Bernardo Daddi ""Saint Paul"""
"and President of Artisans of Barga. Principal works of Antonio Nardini: Nardini has received several acknowledgements including: Antonio Nardini Antonio Nardini (Barga, Italy, 7 February 1922) is an Italian historian and author. Nardini was an Italian Alpini officer during the Second World War. Nardini worked as a researcher, founder and president of the Group ""Ricerche storiche archeologiche"" and was Director of the local section of Istituto Storico Lucchese. Nardini helped organize photographic exhibitions about the Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli (1985) and about Italian colonial wars (1986). Nardini is a member and historic consultant of the magazine «L’ora di Barga» and"
"The third storey, which can be identified by the smaller blocks used to construct it, was added after the fire of 1323. The building is designed around an open courtyard with an external staircase leading to the second floor. An open well is found in the centre of the courtyard. The Bargello opened as a national museum (""Museo Nazionale del Bargello"") in 1865, displaying the largest Italian collection of gothic and Renaissance sculptures (14–17th century). The museum houses masterpieces by Michelangelo, such as his ""Bacchus"", ""Pitti Tondo"" (or ""Madonna and Child""), ""Brutus"" and ""David-Apollo"". Its collection includes Donatello's ""David"" and"
"MAGI '900- Museum of Artistic and Historical Excellence The museum of artistic and historical excellence, also known as the Museum of Art of the Italian Generations and MAGI '900, is a private museum located in Pieve di Cento. The museum is culled from an idea of the entrepreneur Giulio Bargellini and is characterized by a ""generational"" subdivision of the works exhibited. The building hosting the museum is a silo for the storage of wheat built in 1933, with a total area of 4,000 m² distributed over six floors. The building, now in disuse, was purchased by Bargellini who in collaboration"
"in a room in the Palazzo Vecchio. The marble bust of a lady with a bunch of flowers (""Dama col mazzolino"") in the Bargello at Florence is probably from the later 1470s. The identity of the lady is unknown. The relief for the funerary monument of Francesca Tornabuoni for Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome is also now in the Bargello at Florence. In 1475 the Condottiero Colleoni, a former Captain General of the Republic of Venice, died and by his will left a substantial part of his estate to the Republic on condition that a statue of himself should"
"Bardolino Bardolino is a ""comune"" (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about west of Venice and about northwest of Verona. Located on the eastern shore of Lake Garda, Bardolino borders the following municipalities: Affi, Cavaion Veronese, Costermano, Garda, Lazise, Manerba del Garda, Moniga del Garda, Padenghe sul Garda, and Pastrengo. The economy is mostly based on tourism and production of wine (including the Bardolino DOC). Archaeological excavations have proven the presence of humans in the area since prehistoric times, in the area of Cisano. There also traces of ancient Romans, though the modern settlement"
"Antonio Nardini Antonio Nardini (Barga, Italy, 7 February 1922) is an Italian historian and author. Nardini was an Italian Alpini officer during the Second World War. Nardini worked as a researcher, founder and president of the Group ""Ricerche storiche archeologiche"" and was Director of the local section of Istituto Storico Lucchese. Nardini helped organize photographic exhibitions about the Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli (1985) and about Italian colonial wars (1986). Nardini is a member and historic consultant of the magazine «L’ora di Barga» and has covered various public and administrative officials, such as Counsellor of the Ospedale San Francesco di Barga"
"the artists hired and materials used (especially bronze) indicate the importance that was placed on this site. Today, all of the original sculptures have been removed and replaced with modern duplicates to protect them from the elements and vandalism. The originals mainly reside in the museum of Orsanmichele, which occupies the upper floor of the church, and can be seen on every Monday, the only day when the museum is open. Two works by Donatello are in other Florentine museums: ""St. George"" and its niche are in the Bargello, and ""St. Louis of Toulouse"" is in the museum of the"
"the collections, though he collected over 1,000,000 articles in his lifetime. Rinaldo Zardini Palaeontology Museum Rinaldo Zardini Palaeontology Museum (Italian, Museo Paleontologico ""Rinaldo Zardini"") is a palaeontological museum in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. It is one of three museums administered by Le Regole d'Ampezzo, the other two being the Mario Rimoldi Modern Art Museum and the Regole of Ampezzo Ethnographic Museum. It is also a member of ""DOMUS, the Network of Science Museums of the Veneto Dolomites"". The paleontology museum opened in August 1975, exhibits Dolomite fossils. The museum bears the name of Rinaldo Zardini, a local researcher, who collected the"
"of the first Piedmontese victories in the First Italian War of Independence. However, later the Austrians retaliated with ravages and shootings. It was annexed to the newly formed Kingdom of Italy in 1866. Bardolino Bardolino is a ""comune"" (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about west of Venice and about northwest of Verona. Located on the eastern shore of Lake Garda, Bardolino borders the following municipalities: Affi, Cavaion Veronese, Costermano, Garda, Lazise, Manerba del Garda, Moniga del Garda, Padenghe sul Garda, and Pastrengo. The economy is mostly based on tourism and production of wine"
"home to one of Italy's 19th century poet Giovanni Pascoli. In 2008 Barga became the first medieval historic centre in Italy to be mapped and equipped with QR codes (2D barcodes) for all of the churches, palazzo's statues, restaurants, bars and places of interest. After a two-year trial, the project was released to the public in Dec 2010 under the name iBarga. Visitors can now get precise up to date information about the city on their mobile telephones and in 10 different languages The British writer Len Deighton wrote his novel ""SS-GB"" at a rented hut on the outskirts of"
"Rinaldo Zardini Palaeontology Museum Rinaldo Zardini Palaeontology Museum (Italian, Museo Paleontologico ""Rinaldo Zardini"") is a palaeontological museum in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. It is one of three museums administered by Le Regole d'Ampezzo, the other two being the Mario Rimoldi Modern Art Museum and the Regole of Ampezzo Ethnographic Museum. It is also a member of ""DOMUS, the Network of Science Museums of the Veneto Dolomites"". The paleontology museum opened in August 1975, exhibits Dolomite fossils. The museum bears the name of Rinaldo Zardini, a local researcher, who collected the materials and catalogued them. Thousands of his findings are part of"
"of cultural assets). Guido Marzulli Guido Marzulli is a figurative Italian painter . Guido Marzulli was born in Bari, July 8, 1943. His father – Michele Marzulli, who was also a poet and writer – and his mother Rosa Tosches were skilled painters. He began his artistic activity in Bari, where he spent his adolescence and attended various meetings and debates with most important scholars and Italian painters, used to be part of the literary and artistic salon established in his parent home during the 1960s. Also in Bari he finished his university studies and completed a degree in Economics."
"the last king of Italy; Princess Mafalda of Savoy, wife of the Prince of Hesse, who died at Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944; and the painter Gregorio Calvi di Bergolo (1904–1994), who created the Hall of Murals in Chicago's International Surgical Museum. Bergolo Bergolo is a ""comune"" (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about northeast of Cuneo. As of 1 January 2017, it had a population of 68 and an area of . Bergolo borders the following municipalities: Cortemilia, Levice, Pezzolo Valle Uzzone, and Torre Bormida. The Bergolo estates"
"cardinal of Portugal in the Basilica di San Miniato al Monte, Florence (1461–1467). The portrait bust of Matteo Palmieri in the Bargello is signed and dated 1468. In 1470 he made the monument for the Duchess of Amalfi, Mary of Aragon, in the Church of Monte Oliveto, Naples; the relief of the Nativity over the altar in the same place is also probably his. A statue of John the Baptist as a boy is in the Bargello; also a delicate relief of the Madonna and Child, an ""Ecce Homo"", and a bust of Francesco Sassetti. The so-called ""Madonna del Latte"""
"empty exterior niches of the Uffizi. Lorenzo Bartolini Lorenzo Bartolini (Prato, 7 January 1777 Florence, 20 January 1850) was an Italian sculptor who infused his neoclassicism with a strain of sentimental piety and naturalistic detail, while he drew inspiration from the sculpture of the Florentine Renaissance rather than the overpowering influence of Antonio Canova that circumscribed his Florentine contemporaries. Bartolini was born in Savignano di Prato, near Prato, Tuscany. After studying at the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts, honing his skills and reputation as a modeller in alabaster, he went in 1797 to Paris, where he studied painting under Frédéric"
"Alfredo Barbini Alfredo Barbini, a glass artist born in 1912 on the islands of Murano in the lagoon of Venice, Italy, was one of Murano's leading figures of the twentieth century. His parents were members of families which had been prominent in the glassmaking industry on Murano for generations as glassblowers and beadmakers. Barbini began his long career in 1925 at the age of 13, working in the S.A.I.A.R. Ferro Toso factory. In 1929 he joined Cristalleria di Venezia e Murano as a master glassblower. He left that firm in 1932 for employment with a glass workshop in Milan, but"
"scar left by the bar of the printing press. The ""Museo Bodoniano"" was opened in Parma, Italy in 1963. The entrance is shared with the Biblioteca Palatina, both housed within the museum and theater complex of the Palazzo della Pilotta. Giambattista Bodoni Giambattista Bodoni (; 16 February 1740 in Saluzzo – 30 November 1813 in Parma) was an Italian typographer, type-designer, compositor, printer and publisher in Parma. He first took the type-designs of Pierre Simon Fournier as his exemplars, but afterwards became an admirer of the more modelled types of John Baskerville; and he and Firmin Didot evolved a style"
"and the ""Portrait of a Youth"" by Filippino Lippi. The Metropolitan Museum of Art conserves eight paintings that Bardini once owned, including Veronese's ""Boy with a Greyhound"", and Giovanni di Paolo's ""Coronation of the Virgin"" from the Robert Lehman collection, as well as the baroque portrait bust of Ferdinando de' Medici by Giovanni Battista Foggini and an eagle lectern by Giovanni Pisano. Bardini's connections with Bernard Berenson resulted in several of Bardini's purchases finding their way to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, where Berenson was the guiding light; among them are two North Italian Romanesque stylobate, column-supporting lions and"
"Carrozzeria Barbi Carrozzeria Barbi is an Italian bus manufacturer, with headquarters in Mirandola, near Modena. The company was founded in 1905 by Galileo Barbi as a small workshop for the production of horse-drawn carriages in the small village of Fossa. In 1910 it moved to Concordia sulla Secchia. In 1911 they won the International Exhibition in Paris in 1911 for the quality and comfort of the carriages produced. In 1927, with the advent of motorization, car production began. The main plant was opened in Mirandola where they realized vehicles bodies on chassis of Alfa Romeo, Ansaldo, Lancia, Fiat and Officine"
"Institute of British Architects; Reports of the Smithsonian Institution; Revue de L’Art Chretien; Brooklyn Institute Bulletin; and in a Brooklyn Museum publication series, Memoirs of Art and Archaeology. Summary of Survey Expeditions: 1895 Italy (circa May – October). Included visits to Ancona, Arezzo, Assisi, Bari, Bologna, Borgo San Donnino, Chiusi, Cremona, Ferrara, Fiesole, Florence, Foligno, Genoa, Girgenti, Lucca, Milan, Modena, Naples, Orvieto, Padua, Paestum, Palermo, Pavia, Perugia, Piazcenza, Pisa, Pompeii, Ravello, Ravenna, Rimini, Rome, Ruvo, Santa Maria del Giudice, Selinus, Siena, Toscanella, Trani, Troja, Venice, Verona, Vetralla, Vicenza, Viterbo, Volterra. Sites visited included San Nicola, Bari; Troja Cathedral; San Paolo"
"the Louvre, the National Museum of Serbia, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée des beaux-arts de Chambéry, the Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon, the Museo Civico e Diocesano d'Arte Sacra of Montalcino, the church of San Francesco, Lucignano, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Fralin Museum of Art are among the public collections having paintings by Bartolo di Fredi. Bartolo di Fredi Bartolo di Fredi (c. 1330 – January 26, 1410), also called Bartolo Battiloro, was an Italian painter, born in Siena, classified as a member of the Sienese School. He had a large studio and was"